This year for Ben's 7th birthday party he wanted a Lego themed party. He invited his friends Georgy, Jonny and Shaun from his class and of course brother Nathan. It was a rainy day which was good since we had all indoor activities planned. We had some Lego's out for free play until everyone had arrived and then we ate pizza and soda. (Thank you Little Caesars $5 pizzas which just happened to open a few days before the party.)

Charlotte made a Lego cake. She made a rectangle and square cake and stacked them and then 6 cupcakes for the Lego pegs. Then since Ben wanted a red and a blue brick she bought white frosting and dyed them with food coloring. Then Ben added his touch by adding legos figures.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Im putting this out of order, but I forgot to post it after the Friday pictures. Friday Evening Michelle and I went to a screening of White Christmas and this was my experience.

My Evening with Bing Crosby

I forgot that I have something in common with Bing Crosby, we both grew up in Spokane Washington. Im here visiting family in Spokane and my older Sister took me to an awesome screening of White Christmas in the Bing Crosby Theater. Before the movie Bing's Niece Carolyn Schneider (who has written two books on Bing) and Howard Crosby, one of Bings Nephews along with another lady spoke about their memories of their Uncle. Bing wasn't one of those stars that was full of himself, he very much just wanted to be part of the guys. Howard told us about how he was on a road trip with Bing and he asked him what his most difficult moment was (thinking that his Uncle would say that it was trying to memorize a part or dealing with a tough director) But he said that it was singing "I'll be Home for Christmas" to a bunch of troops overseas and not breaking down himself to cry.

He started out singing and whistling all of the time, but actually started out wanting to be a lawyer. After High School some friends formed a band and then later he and another member took a job at the very theater that had the screening to perform before all of the movies back when they did that. This lead him to decide to pursue singing in Hollywood.